>>358001
Oh, this works!
He can be the Uke for all her fantasies!

+1 to butler

>>357993
"He isn't just captured, he's enslaved by me. He can't do anything I don't tell him to so he won't be a threat to you. Of course he doesn't seem to be very loyal to me either so maybe I should introduce him to my plaguespreader. I have been meaning to do some research on the infection."

Actually, I have an idea. Is there any way to turn a human into a slime person? We already have a archer, but not a slime. Besides, I think it would work very well in a few ways. He'd be a slime himself so it would be ironic, he can't well harm other slimes if he's one of them, and he can't really return since he'd likely be killed by his 'friends' for being a slime.

...besides, the slime kid needs a playmate... he's just too cute to be on his own.

+1 to trying to turn him into a slime. It's nicely ironic. Ask the elder if it knows a way.

>>358010
>>358014
Haha ok then, adding to >>358008
"-unless you could turn him into a slime yourself, that would be interesting to see."

Guys, we really do not want to bring him back to our base unless we're planning to treat him in the same manner that we're treating all the rest of our minions. It will be an active drain on the morale of some of our people to see that we're keeping someone around and openly abusing them- far more of a hit than it would be a bonus for those who would like having someone to push around.

Just offer him one opportunity to swear to willingly serve us in all things, and if he refuses kill him. We don't need a morale case and disposing of him in any particularly fancy fashion is just a waste of time or being cruel and usual, which our minions will disapprove of.

>>358019
No, it's penance for being a completely remorseless murderer.
The slimes were treated far worse when they were slaves of humans, and he killed them because they're not slaves anymore.
He gets butler duty so he gets a taste of what his victims had gone through.

Completely aside from that? What kind of overlord refuses to throw people in prison?

>>358020
Firstly, it is ridiculously hypocritical of us to think that we can force anyone else to do penance of any sort with even a scrap of justification. With our history we cannot take the moral high ground here, amnesia or not.

Secondly, we are explicitly trying to avoid the kind of situation where we have enslaved people who hate us lying around. It doesn't really matter whether we call them minions, prisoners, or slaves; they're still people who detest us and are living in our base. I don't want that. Our base should be an exclusively pro-us environment.

And my answer to your question would be "the kind who would rather execute them than deal with the trouble of managing prisoners".

while I would disagree about having responsibility for our previous incarnation. The point that keeping someone as a mistreated slave is both a potential morale damaging thing, and a risk to our security.

So either we perma execute him or we don't abuse him.

Hmmm, butler duty is nice, but it won't be helpful to have a butler with 0 loyalty. Making him a slime person can at least solve a few problems.

For starters, it's a punishment that fits the crime. We've done that to several of our members, but considering that Leon's actions were pretty bad, a suitable punishment should be done. The slime king wants justice? This is pretty good justice. He's down one murdering hero and up one slime person. Sure he'd be with us, but the story would spook heroes. After all, would they really want to fight slimes if they might be turned into slimes as punishment?

Also, Broww is a title right? So he may have some pull. If he's a human, he could use that pull against us if his buddies find them, but would he be able to if he's some cute little slime person? His friends would be his enemies.

Plus this may make him a unique unit and perhaps make him a her... or at least gender neutral.

>>358023
Being a butler is not abusive. We we aren't inflicting any horrors on him, it's just a bit demeaning.

If he misbehaves we punish him, but that is completely normal.

Now, compare this to infecting him with the plague, which will rub our good-aligned members the wrong way. Most notably Alice and Kass. We can't afford that.

Well, he might, he might not. He may go after slimes in rage, but if he was doing it out of superiority as a man triumphing over simple slimes, then wouldn't that strip him of his pride? Besides, some times the best way to learn to respect someone is to walk a mile in their shoes... slime trails would also suffice if they have no feet.

Besides, we should give the elder some closure. Just making him a butler might not fulfill the request and I don't want to off the guy. ...We could make him a slime person butler though if that suits everyone's taste.

>>358040
>Being a butler is not abusive. We we aren't inflicting any horrors on him, it's just a bit demeaning.
Which is why I suggested butler. Not a "sexually molested slave", not a "abused regularly prisoner", nor a "forced into transformation into a new species servant". Also, while being turned into a slime is hilariously ironic, it does not stop him from killing slimes. It only makes him more likely to want to kill them and more likely to get away with it. Plus who knows how much it costs.

He would be no less disloyal then others we enslaved. And talking of his crime is highly hypocritical.

He might still be disloyal if we don't work on that... And keen on spying on us for our enemies. Unless we work up his loyalty... Which, in consideration, we have done before with all our other enslaved followers. We could just keep him unarmed and not allowed into restricted areas until he is loyal.

>>358052
>And talking of his crime is highly hypocritical.
Sylva, the old Overlord, and the mysterious third party member destroyed the town because it oppressed and enslaved the slimes and adamantly refused to stop when the old Overlord demanded they let the slimes go.

There is nothing hypocritical about being protective of a group you've helped in the past, and so far we've basically kept our violence restricted to people who are out looking for fights so there isn't the genocide/random murder angle at work here.

Considering all the different methods of punishment, I have to go with just killing him.
Permanent death was possible if killed in the demon world, right?

It might be a bit much to actually infect him with the plague, but saying it will freak him the fuck out. Which is fun.

The slimification thing, if it's possible at all, may be more or less as terrible. If he keeps his personality and gets a new body that isn't too bad. If it basically consumes him and replaces him with a new slime creature that's the same as killing him, but creepier.

What would be ironic is if he became the slimes protector in some way. I'm not sure how to do that, though. We'll probably end up just keeping him around for now.

i think it would be a bit hypocritical to kill him all things considered (look at our former crimes). lets have him work for us, though we should have him be the low man on the totem pole for now, nothing to drastic he just has to do double chores or something.

If we can turn him into a slime, do that. If not, I say we kill him

Why not offer him a false-choice: Either you kill him now, or he swears unwavering loyalty to you. Gotta be worth a try for a few bonus loyalty points.

let's just go to the demon world and shank him.

>>358097
I'm fine with killing him, he's not female.
WAIT. CAN WE MAKE HIM FEMALE?

Maybe. Last I check, slime people lack 'gender' so we can at least make it so he's not masculine. He'll be our trap.

Though I don't see why we can't have guys in our army. Got to pander to all demographics.

I'm for having Leon join the group

Overlord 2011/10/14(Fri)14:28 No. 358180 ID: 2f2274
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"How about this, if possible we should turn him into a slime. It seems like a far more suitable punishment."

>"What!? No no no do 'not' do that! I don't want to be some weak little slime wh-"

Leon finds himself enveloped by the Elder Slime.

>"An excellent plan.. Don't look."

You look.

Oh damn. That seems unpleasant.

Overlord 2011/10/14(Fri)14:32 No. 358183 ID: 2f2274
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You assume Leon is screaming but you can't hear him over the massive amounts of slime covering him.

The Elder moves away from him revealing a slime person.

>"What the hell!?"

>"For the crimes you committed in my land you will now serve this man until he deems your punishment to be over."

>"I refuse!"

>"Then enjoy being a slime for the rest of your life. Seeing as how slimes are naturally immortal..."

>"Okay okay okay!"

He, well it now, glares at you.

>"Now, go to the treasury and take as much as you can carry."

>>358183
As much as we can carry. Aw yeah. Clarify that- is it just you personally or does that include our retinue? I assume we have a bag or something to carry the gold with.

If we are allowed to use our retinue, be sure to include Silva. His reaction should be awesome.

Overlord 2011/10/14(Fri)14:41 No. 358185 ID: 2f2274
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"Can I use a bag or something?"

>"Whatever you need."

If you could smile you so would.

You and your group make your way to the treasury.


It's completely empty save for a single chest.

oh great, now we have to make sure he dislikes being a slime or else he'll choose to remain in this form, abandon us, and keep on being a douchebag forever.

anyway, it's barracks time!

>>358185
Hey where the fuck is all the gold?! Send someone to get the Elder slime so he can see this before you fuck with anything.

>>358185
Take the chest. It's a Mimic, and since it stole our reward it has become our reward.

Use subjugate on it until it gives up.

I think whatever that thing is its how the eldar slime stores his gold.

have rose persuade it. she's a demon, it's a demon. i'm sure she knows what points to press.

>>358197
Demon refers to an entire plane, you know. To know about a demon we would want a demonologist.
(Besides, for all we know it is some sort of golem.)

Overlord 2011/10/14(Fri)15:12 No. 358204 ID: 2f2274
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You call the Elder Slime over. He looks into the treasury.

>"Alalia!!!"

A short demon pops out of the chest.

>"Whaaaaat?"

>"WHAT DID YOU DO!?"

>"Oooh. I was uh.. Cleaning up a bit."

>"Where is the gold!?"

>"I ate it."

>"You WHAT!?"

>"I ate the gold. You know that stuff never rusts. I figured it'd be better to eat it then to let it just lay around and take up space."

You hear the Elder shake in rage. You decide to step in.

"Excuse me, what manner of creature is this?"

>"She is a Mimic. A demon that lives off of treasure. I'd kept her here for a while to protect her so long as she didn't eat EVERYTHING"

She rolls her eyes.

>"You were just going to give it all away anyway. Better use for it in my opinion."

>"I'm regretting my decision.. She's yours."

>"What?"

"What?"

>"I'm afraid I can not pay you back so she is your prize. She's actually quite useful."

Alalia ducks back into her chest.

You notice that for someone who just ate an entire room full of gold she didn't seem very bloated.

>>358204
Haul her back to the castle.
Find out what she can do.

Maybe ask what she can do before hauling her back?

And how valuable does something need to be to count as treasure?

Ugh that just figures. Not that I mind having a mimic, and while losing money we never got isn't technically a loss there is still the matter of not having enough money to build the barracks that would hold our new recruits.

Tell the elder slime of this specific quandary and that we have immediate need of monetary wealth. Ask if he has something, or a number of somethings, of rareness and value to sell off to humans.

Welp, looks like we are going to have to make those barracks asap now. Whatever we can scrounge up, we use for them.

On the plus side, we now have three very unique members to our party. Well, let's thank the elder and perhaps work together as allies in the future. He's a pretty cool guy and we need to start somewhere.

>>358204
I think the mimic is storing the gold to eat later and lying about it. Ask what stuff she can do, right here in front of the Elder.

>>358217
We could just take her back and tell her she either coughs up the cash we NEED (in this case 1800G to finish the castle) or we beat her like a pinata until gold falls out.

Overlord 2011/10/14(Fri)15:41 No. 358221 ID: 2f2274
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"What can she do besides devour gold?"

>"She can also store vast amounts of treasure within herself. She can even use gold as fuel for magical attacks. Though she's also cursed with the intense desire to eat gold or golden objects."

"That's useful I suppose... I don't mean to be rude but I actually needed some gold for repairs. Do you have any other means of paying me?"

>"I do not. 'She' does however."

>"Never!"

The Elder knocks her chest around a bit.

>"Okay okay okay!"

She opens the chest slightly and drops out a solid gold armband.

>"There, now leave me alone!"

"that's a start but is it worth more then 1800G? that's all i need, give me that much and i can care less about the rest. if you refuse then i can let my group take turns persuading you."

>>358221
Take the armband away from her, then haul her back to the castle.
I hope that armband is worth a lot...

She totally has the entire pile of gold in storage. Greedy mimic!

Question is, do we keep this fact to ourselves and steal the Elder Slime's entire hoard via the mimic, or force her to spit it back up and take only a reasonable amount?

We might be able to get an alliance with the Elder Slime, though that wouldn't really do us much good considering he needed our help to fight off just one group of adventurers.

>>358227
they have logistics. we have the army.

>>358221
"This better be enough to pay for the barracks, or you'll be sleeping in a hole with my plaguespreader." Let's get a loyalty check on her as well.

Ask what the newly slimified boy is capable of, since he certainly doesn't yet know himself. Then before we leave for the shop lets do a scan, looking for a level 6(6) encounter that looks out of place. I want that mage and the archers gear.

>>358229
According to Larro, items lost via Enslave are lost forever to Hammerspace. Or the void.

We can probably just buy or find another good bow anyway.

>>358233
I am dissapoint

Money check.

I think we all agree that we should keep the mimic, and I do too. I think she's kind of cute.

>>358229
Sharing a hole with a plague spreader as a threat. I like it.

Go ahead and haul her back to the castle regardless. She heard that the gold was going to be given away as payment. That means intentionally stealing our reward.

it's not a good idea to make threats the first thing she gets from us when she joins us. we're supposed to have loyal followers who enjoy being on our side. if they're only helping us because otherwise they're gonna be locked up with a plaguespreader, of course they'll defect to our enemies' side as soon as they can.

>>358351
Agreed, can the threats.
Take the band, take her. go back to castle... and keep her the fuck away from our gold.

Also, it is possible she is tricking the elder slime and she didn't eat it but steal it and might be willing to give it to us if we treat her nice... remember she was giving us looks when we were last here and discussed our payment in her presence.

Although that is quite the xanthos gambit so i wouldn't bet on it. Do post a guard up on treasury and make sure she isn't allowed in. Use cute pictures showing her eating gold.

>>358359
This.

Put the Silva Doll and Nyx on Guard Duty for the treasury.

we should look into a cure for her curse. considering it seems like mimics work best when working around treasure, her being cursed to eat gold probably really sucks.

Hate to say it, but I'm scared to see how having a mimic will turn out for US. With our luck, it'll mutate into a mimic with legs and murder us all in our sleep.

>>358482
curse? it's just what she does. like how a succubus fucks dudes. or an imp plays tricks.

>>358482
Wouldn't that be like curing a vampire of the need for blood? (Though we might be able to find a way to reduce or suppress the urge.)

>>358482
No.

Also, folks, I am actually able to have up to three different things that say who we are. Yay for multiple electronic devices which have the capability to connect to the internet!

>>358484
>Though she's also cursed with the intense desire to eat gold or golden objects.
Yes, it's a curse. Removing it would be a great boon.

>>358493
no, he was just being flowery. a succubus is cursed with a desire to fuck dudes.

Overlord 2011/10/16(Sun)13:36 No. 358625 ID: aa4c27
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You pick up the golden bracelet.

"How much is this even worth?"

You hear Alalia's muffled voice.

>"That's worth a few hundred G at least."

"I'll need more than that."

>"Well to bad."

"Excuse me?"

She pops out.

>"I said I'm not giving you anymore gold! It's mine okay!?"

She's getting a bit annoying. Maybe some time with Nyx would help.

poke that pentagram bellybutton, say "beep" as you do.

>>358625
Say: "Are you familiar with the concept of investment? Investment means that if we spend gold on things now, we can use those things to acquire more gold than we spent. A hoard will not last you forever."

>>358625
Overlord, have you ever heard of electroplating? Using a very small amount of electricity you can cover an object with a film of gold. Using a small amount of gold you can create an object that appears to be of far higher value. I don't think we should counterfeit currency, but tricking a greedy mimic into trading pure gold for electroplated things...

>>358625
"Yes. You own the gold, and I own you. Do you see where this is going?
Regardless, you'd rather give me the gold anyway. I'm trying to repair my castle's defenses, and since that's where you're going to be I'm quite sure you can see the value of things that will keep people from killing you and taking all the gold."

Jesus you people are abusive masters.
... just accept that.

do
>>358359

And go farm some lower levels and actually kill and SELL THE LOOT THIS TIME so we can build a barracks.

>>358634
I agree we shouldn't threaten her, but we should at least try to explain investment to her so we can use her greed for good profit.

Ehh, we haven't fallen to outright abusing our other recruits but instead try to earn their loyalty. Even if we are manipulative about it. This one is annoying and hoarding oodles of our cash but we'll work on her, in the meantime that is enough to get the barracks up. Let's get out of here and sell the loot then to do that and then go over what exactly our new companions are capable of.

I still want to scan around for that mage, we didn't want witnesses to Silva being alive after all. But if he isn't to be found then it can't be helped.

Wait... how about we ask his other companions where the local respawn point is?

we shouldn't use just a stick, we need a carrot. the elder slime said she was cursed right? we could offer to try and cure her. a craving to actually eat gold would probably suck for someone as greedy as her.

>>358627
This one.

Thank the slime for his time anyway, and that you'll be on your way.

On your way out, say this.
>>358628

Say this.

Overlord 2011/10/16(Sun)16:44 No. 358696 ID: aa4c27
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You let out a sigh. Trading fake gold items for actual gold seems like a good plan, you must speak with Styx about this later. You thank the Elder and drag out Alalia.

You open up her chest.

>"Yes?"

"Alalia, are you familiar with the concept of investment? Investment means that if we spend gold on things now, we can use those things to acquire more gold than we spent. A hoard will not last you forever."

>"Reeeally? I would never have guessed that!"

Your sarcasm detectors are going off.

>"For the last time this gold is mine, I won't let you have ANY of it."

"Is there nothing I can do to convince you otherwise?"

>"Not a damn thing."

....
You poke the pentagram.

>"!!!"

She turns away from you shivering.

>"D-don't do that you idiot!"

"Why should I not? You're not cooperating with me so why should I work with you?"

She takes off another gold bracelet.

>"There I gave you some more now leave me alone!"

>>358696
so cute, and I think we just sexually molested her.

ask her if her gold eating is a real curse like the elder slime said, if so we need to cure her of it.

>>358696
That was both amusing and profitable. We don't need to do it again though.

Overlord 2011/10/16(Sun)17:18 No. 358721 ID: aa4c27
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Alalia locks herself in the chest.
You take her and teleport to Fabio's shop again.

>"Overlord mah man what's happenin?"

You place the bracelets on his desk.

"I wish to sell these."

>"Ooh, nice nice very nice. I'll give you G650 for both of them. Gotta make a profit you know? Also got some nice shoes for sale. Makes your units run faster. Interested?"

>>358721
"G650 for both? Fabio, you're a great friend, but that's ridiculous. Give me G850 and you'll still net a tidy profit.

"As for the shoes, always interested. But how much faster, and how much are you charging?"

Sell one, keep the other for the plan. No shoes unless they're really cheap. Emily can't wear them and she's our main melee. Well, beastgirl could.

*get whole bunch of money, Fabio has awesome stuff.* I think we know who's the true mastermind here.

Well.. let's see what the shoes cost. We can at least afford the barracks easily now.

Sell one, keep the other for the plan. No shoes unless they're really cheap. Emily can't wear them and she's our main melee. Well, beastgirl could.

Also, pic up some cheap glass or copper jewelry or something. Nice stuff made out of a cheap material, please.

Ask for a discount on the next thing you guy instead of more money straight up.

Ugh, I'm tired of this. Bring the mimic in here. She has greed above all else, so lets take advantage of that.

"I'm sorry if I bothered you earlier. Look, here's the thing. I was all looking forward to fixing my castle up, and now even with these two I'm well over a thousand short. I am assuming what you ate is gone forever. I'm alright with that, really. But I also see you wear more gold. If you're willing to part with enough to cover the 1800 for my total expenses, I'm willing to set aside a quarter of the gold I earn until you are paid back double. And after that I'll give you 1/10 of whatever I earn. If you want it in the form of replacements for your items or other jewelry or valuables instead of coin you're likely to get an even a better deal. How about it?"

Oh and buy those shoes, if we can.

Overlord 2011/10/16(Sun)17:40 No. 358734 ID: aa4c27
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"G650 for both? Fabio, you're a great friend, but that's really not fair. Give me G850 and you'll still net a tidy profit. As for the shoes, always interested. But how much faster, and how much are you charging?"

>"The shoes are only G50 and let a unit move an additional space, 2 if running. As for the G850.... How about G800?"

You look at Alalia to see if you can get anymore from her but the chest is locked shut

You figure you can probably get a good amount of scrap stuff really cheap.

>>358734
800 and he throws in the shoes. Buy a barracks and some jingly junk.

800? That's pretty close to our goal.

Those shoes are pretty damn good. Move speed is a major advantage, believe me. Buy them!

>>358737
This.

Fabio already moved up quite a bit from his original offer, so we shouldn't push it.

>>358734
G800 and throws in the shoes sounds good for me; if he won't move, then I guess we can buy them but that's annoying.

Buy a Barracks when we're done, and figure out what exactly our other remaining fortress restorations would entail.

>>358739
Seconding this. We should say we agree to the 800 and will also buy the shoes.

800, we buy the shoes, we fix up the barracks, and power ourselves up. Nice and easy.

Besides, he's been nothing but bro to us. We should be bro back.

Bah, stubborn mimic. Lets ask Fabio about loans... next time. We don't want to squeeze him harder than we already are. 800G, 750G after the shoes.

Overlord 2011/10/16(Sun)18:15 No. 358751 ID: aa4c27
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You decide to just leave it as it is. You take the 800 and buy the shoes along with some copper junk. He throws in the junk 'on the house' leaving you with G905.

You teleport back to your castle and pay Styx the G300 needed to repair the barracks.

>"Excellent.. This will be done within the week. I'll make some additional space for out newest recruits in the meantime."

"Sounds good. What is next after this Styx?"

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>"Well my Lord most repairs so far have been for comfort or cosmetic reasons. The only main defense we can build right now with our meager gold supply is the floatation ring."

"What purpose did that serve?"

>"It simply prevented land bound heroes from reaching us easily."

There is a loud knocking sound at the front doors.

>???: "Overlord, we know you're in there! Open up!"

>Styx: "Like that."

>>358753
Put Nyx in a maid's uniform and have her open the door.

Will the overlord be able to handle his new visitors? Will Nix be cured of her plague? Will Alice hug all the things? Tune in next time on How to be an Overlord Chapter 4!

spy on them from somewhere to see what they have. if they are all swordsman then put nix in front of them and laugh as they all lose their swords.

Suggestion 2011/10/16(Sun)18:30 No. 358762 ID: aa4c27
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>>358756

>>358753
Have Kass answer the door. A good-aligned cleric would throw them off.

>>358753
This is in the demon realm. Humans will not respawn. It is, in fact, safe to use Nyx. Also, Rose need not worry about death for now. Get Megan out here too. Ruby and Alice should hang out behind pillars, but be ready to flee.

>>358764
Well, we don't want to greet them with a plague-spreader, but having Kass open the door means putting our healer in stabbing range of potential hostiles.